I row and my husband measures the depth of the pond with a length
of string. The scum at the surface has just frozen, so the rowboat
cuts like an icebreaker. The string is weighted down by a door hinge.
Four feet, six ...
Algae Bloom by Noelle O’Reilly
LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Flash Fiction.
Final Judge: Brittany Ackerman
Mother Chen’s fingers ache, cracked from washing feet and floors all day, but still ...
Cheap Mother by Jeremy Tsai
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Nancy Posey
The Tiny Journalist
Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
BOA Editions, April 2019
$17.00; 128 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-942-68373-5
Point of view, for any writer of prose or poetry, is a crucial ...
Review: The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye
Book Reviews, LAR Online
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We’ve only had one really. My mom’s cousin Ronnie
who I almost never saw growing up. I was told
he went away to college in Boston and came back
bloated with a sick liver from the drinking.
A ...
A Short History of Artists in My Family by Craig Blais
LAR Online, Poetry
If she could not find plastic bags to tie around her wrists and wrap over her palms, she would have to sleep with her hands dangling off the bed, avoiding the duvet cover at all costs, and that would mean a night of ...
Ayna by Seema Yasmin
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Leonora Simonovis
I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
Poems by Tiana Clark
University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2018
$17.00; 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0822965589
The late Toni ...
Review: I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
Book Reviews, LAR Online
It’s questionable. The gun
pppppin your hands, some power, prowess, a stiff, dark recognition
that we become the objects we own—
pppppppppppppppppppppppAnd the deer
is muscle, is tendon-tight, ...
From the Deer Stand by Alison Palmer
LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Matty Layne Glasgow
My lover comes inside me
& I weep inconsolable. My body,
pressed almost through the ...
Before the Not-Child’s Not-Howl by torrin a. greathouse
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Nancy Posey
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Essays by Margaret Renkl
Milkweed editions, 2019
$24.00, 111 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-378-2
The overwhelming crowd at the ...
Review: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
Book Reviews, LAR Online
